Question

A recipe called for the ratio to sugar to flour to be 9:7. If you used 72ounce of sugar,how many ounces of flour would you need to use

Answer 1

56 ounces

Explanation:

By proportion

9/7 = 72/x where x = amount of flour

x = (7*72) / 9

= 7*8

= 56 ounces.